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BOTTLE STOPPEIR.

N0. 251,796. Patented Jan. 3,1882.

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I U ITED STATE PATENT OFFICE:

OWEN REDMOND, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK,ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO GEORGE P. GOULDING, OF SAME PLACE.

BOTTLE- STOPPER.

' SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 251,796, dated January 3, 1882, Application filed November 22,1881. (ModeL) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OWEN .REDMOND, acitizen of the United States,residin g at Rochester, in the count y of Monroe and State of N ew, York, 5 have invented a new and useful Improvement in Bottle-Stoppers, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my improvementis to provide a lever-valve bottle-stopper which may be closed ID or opengdwiith such rapidity by the movement of opehand, without using the other hand in any manner in the operation, that the essential gases of beer and other drinking fluids contained in a bottle shall in a great measure be retained within the bottle during the op erations of pouring the fluid therefrom at separate intervals, so that when the whole contents of a bottle are not drawn at the one time that which remains undrawn shall still retain its proper flavor and not become flat.

Figure 1 represents a bottle with the stopper attached, showing all the different parts of the stopper in combination. Fig.2 is a view of hand-lever. Fig. 3 is a view of a valve or disk lever. Fig. 4 is a view of the under side ofthe disk of said lover, showing the groove 0 (for the reception of a rubber washer) and the projecting flange (1. Fig.5 is a top view of the thimble. Fig. 6 is a cross-section, on

line 00 ac, Fig. 4, of the disk, with a washer, c,

in groove 0.

The thimbleA, Figs. 1 and 5, which may be made of any suitable flexible inetalsuch as tin-plate, malleable iron, &c.is bent to a cylindrical shape to fit around the head of a bottle, the upper rim of which stands about flush with the top of the bottle, and the lower rim of it is turned inward, forming a flange, which lies under the shoulder or projection of the head at the termination of the neck of the bottle. It is retained in proper position by the said flange and the tighteningwire to, Fig. 1, which interlaces the vertical edges of the metal which forms the thimble. Twisting the wire aforesaid draws the thimble close around the head of the bottle. Two lugs,b,Figs.1 and 5', which carry a pair of fulcrum-pins, are formed on the side of the thimble, for the purpose of sustainingthe levers B and 0, Figs. 2 and 3. These levers, made of malleable iron, swing between the lugs on the pins aforesaid. One arm of lever -13 is formed into or carries a disk, B,

which lies horizontally over and rests upon the margin of the orifice of the bottle. The

disk has a circular flange, d, projecting from its under side, made the correct size to fit easily within the orifice of the bottle, and a marginal flange, which projects only half the distance from the face of the disk that flange d does.. A. rubber washer theexaot size to cover the margin of the bottle around the orifice is placed tightly in the groove between the aforesaid flanges on the disk, so that when the disk is pressed down the washer makes a water-tight joint'with the margin around the orifice, while the flange d on the disk, whichenters the orifice and extends a little downward therein,

will in a great measure save the fluid in the bottle from contact with the rubber washer,

(which is believed by manyto iujuriouslyaft'ect the flavor of fluids when exposed to its action for a long time.) The other arm, a, of this lever extends outward from the thimble about half an inch, and is bentdown a little to an obtuse angle. Lever (J, Figs. 1 and 2, which is the actuating or hand lever, swings on its fulcrum below lever B, and its shorter arm is bent to a suitable curve or angle, so that it will lie under and impinge the projecting arm a of the disklever. Thelonger arm of leverO extends downward about two and one-halfinch es from its fulcrum, and is somewhat curved to form a'oonvenient handle, which, when the bottle is stopped,

the valve or disk being fastened down securely,lies near the neck of the bottle, and the extreme end of the arm or handle rests against the side thereof, sufficient space being left be tween the neck of the bottle and the curved handle to allow the fingers to seize the handle.- Any" desirable amount of pressure of the disk upon the margin of the orifice may be obtained by the proper adjustment of the relative angles of the. levers B and G.

The operation of the device consists inpressing the hand-lever O downward to the side of the bottle, which closes the valve or disk over the orifice, and pressing it upward and at the same time pressing lightly with the thumb or forefinger on the arm (1 of lever 13 opens the valve, and should the operator neglect to close the valve by touching lever C, but leaves the latter extended upward from the side of the What I claim as my invention, and desire to A secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, with a bottle, of a lever- Valve bottle-stopper, which consists of the thimble A, lugs b, washer 0, disk-lever B, and hand I 5 or actuating lever O, constructed and operating as and for the purpose described.

OWEN REDMOND.

Witnesses:

EDMOND REDMoND, EDWARD M. BEDMoND. 

